Order of Gimghoul records, 1832-2006 (bulk 1940-1997).

Hickerson, Thomas F. (Thomas Felix), 1882-1968

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Thomas F. Hickerson (1882-1968) was a professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University of North Carolina and an expert in highway design. Hickerson was educated at the University of North Carolina and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Hickerson's book Route Location and Design was published by McGraw-Hill. From the guide to the Thomas F. Hickerson Papers, 1911-1967, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection....

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Gimghoul Corporation.

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Order of Gimghoul (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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The Order of Gimghoul was founded in 1889 by Edward Wray Martin, William W. Davies, Shepard Bryan, Andrew Henry Patterson, and Robert Worth Bingham, all students at the University of North Carolina. The society is secret and available to male students and faculty of the University by invitation only. From the description of Order of Gimghoul records, 1832-2006 (bulk 1940-1997). WorldCat record id: 57969111 ...

Curtis, Nathaniel Cortlandt, 1881-1953

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Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis (1881-1953) was a teacher of architecture at Tulane University, writer, and architect. He also worked for the architectural firm of Goldstein, Parham and Labouisse in New Orleans, La. From the description of Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis papers, 1906-1953. (Tulane University). WorldCat record id: 600186726 ...

Hill, George Watts, 1901-1993

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George Watts Hill (1901-1993) of Durham, N.C., was the son of John Sprunt Hill (b. 1869) and father of George Watts Hill Jr. (1926-2002). He worked in hospital administration, banking, insurance, and other industries. A University of North Carolina alumnus, he served on the University of North Carolina System Board of Trustees and later the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors, and was involved, with other Hill family members, in much financial support for the University of Nor...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Shaffer, Charles Milton, 1913-2004

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Charles Milton Shaffer, a native of Greensboro, N.C., attended the University of North Carolina, where he played football and received a B.S. in commerce in 1935. After several years in business, Shaffer returned to Chapel Hill in 1952 to be the University's director of development, a position he held until 1981. Shaffer was active in Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, and other civic organizations in Chapel Hill and in the Episcopal Chapel of the Cross. Shaffer married Charlotte Blanton Winborne,...

Cotten, Lyman A., 1909-1991

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Lyman Atkinson Cotten (1909-1990) graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1936 and from Yale University in 1941. He taught English at the University of North Carolina for 34 years, retiring in 1974. Cotten was a trustee of the Order of the Gimghouls, a secret society at the University, from 1952 until his death. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Modern Language Association. From the description of Lyman A. Cotten photographic an...